Editor’s notes: When it comes to serious negotiations within
the context of the federal government, “hardball”
is the best description given to the process,
in my opinion, and we are in
closing innings of this game we call “hardball,” as relates to the current budget
impasse. Of course, we would not be in this “crisis” if the spineless
RINO Herd leadership were solely in charge. The montra, “It’s the law, its the law,” is nothing less than a statement of surrender from the
feckless collective that surrounds John McCain and Friends. “Slavery” was the law, but many within the Republican Party fought against that tragic conclusion until we won a war against the Democrats in
the South and changed American history forever.
I do
believe that we all have a societal and fiduciary responsibility to each
other. The idea of “personal responsibility”as a path to success, is not a workable theme for the ignorant,
willfully under-educated and/or
unskilled American worker. And, until “ignorance” is “stamped out,” until a practical level of education is
realized, until many within the American
workforce are retrained for the future, we, as a nation of related
individuals, will continue to deal with
the tragedy of the “unproductive individual,”
unable to access any sense of so-called “upward mobility” within or into
the Middle Class.
At any
rate, Republicans are just as concerned
for the working poor as the Socialist/Progressives within the Democrat Party
pretend to be. While the GOP has been
late in coming to the table with regard to the skyrocketing costs of individual
healthcare, I am hoping they are “there,”
now. For certain, while the intentions birthing ObamaCare may
have been righteous, the law is an
absolute and unmitigated disaster (“unmitigated”
meaning “without solution"). We really need to start over with this
legislation. The first step in this
process, is the repeal of all or most of
ObamaCare, and a replacement solution
that is reflective of commonsense, well written and fiscally responsible
- something Democrats (and Establishment
Republicans) know very little
about.
If the GOP
holds to its stated claims and concerns,
I believe they will win the day.
In the following report, I see hope for what I am saying:
WASHINGTON(AP) — House Republicans are offering to pass legislation to avert a default
and end the 11-day partial government shutdown as part of a framework that
would include cuts in benefit programs, officials said Friday.
Republicans also seek changes in the three-year-old health care
law known as Obamacare as part of an end to an impasse that has roiled
financial markets and idled 350,000 federal workers.
President Barack Obama has insisted he will not negotiate with
Republicans over federal spending — or anything else — until the government is
reopened and the $16.7 debt limit raised to avert the possibility of default.
Yet, regarding benefit programs, Obama has previously backed an
increase in Medicare costs for better-off seniors, among other items, and that
idea also has appeal for Republicans.
The White House appeared briefly to wobble on the issue of
negotiations on Thursday, until Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid emerged from
a meeting with the president to reaffirm it emphatically . . . . . . . . . read the full story at the AP link given above.
